The Respect MP George Galloway has said it would be morally justified for a suicide bomber to murder Tony Blair.

In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: “Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber – if there were no other casualties – be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?”

Mr Galloway replied: “Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it – but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7/7. It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq – as Blair did.”

Thanks to Michael for sending this one in. I note that Galloway is already denying it on his webshite.

But I’ve made my position clear. I would not support anyone seeking to assassinate the Prime Minister. That’s why I said in the interview I would report to the authorities any such plot that I knew of.

Since the interviewer in question was Piers Morgan, lovingly referred to as Piers “Morgan” Moron by Private Eye, one could argue the whole thing is a waste of time and not worth more than a mention. Duly noted.

So we’re back to where we started. I thought I needed a change but I have learned that the grass is not greener in another theme.

Sorry for all the changes. And thank you for your patience and advice.

And then I go back to the old theme…

I don’t normally watch the television news but every now and again I like to take some headphones to the gym and channel hop while I’m on an exercise bike. Yesterday I was dumbstruck by a report on ABC7 News.

The report, which lasted a good 60 seconds, was about the cheap price of gas in Iran and consisted of the correspondent telling us that gas only cost 3 or 4 cents a gallon there. It then cut to vox pops with motorists at gas stations in Tehran to find out their thoughts on what it would be like if gas cost 40 cents a gallon.

Amazingly, almost all of them thought it would be a terrible thing if gas cost 40 cents a gallon.

I wonder what would have happened if he had gone to a pump in Washington and asked drivers how they would feel if gas prices were ten times more expensive than they were now? I wonder why the correspondent never gave us an idea how much 4 cents a gallon was in comparison to the average wage or the cost of living in Tehran? And I wonder why twice on the bottom of the screen, we were told that he was reporting from “Tehran, Iraq.”

My guess is that the answer to all of those questions is the same.

PS To be fair we were told that gas cost more than water. But we never found out how much water cost or why water could be relatively expensive.